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St Louis named as Bicycle Friendly Community--bronze level
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Brent Hugh
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Oct 20, 2009 12:28 PDT
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Missouri landed its second officially designated
Bicycle Friendly Community today, as the League
of American Bicyclists named St. Louis, Missouri,
as a bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community.
Columbia, Missouri, was recently designated as a
silver-level Bicycle Friendly Community.
Missouri also has two Bicycle Friendly
Businesses: REI St. Louis and the Velocity Cafe and Cyclery.
The goal in MoBikeFed's Vision for Bicycling &
Walking in Missouri is one silver-level Bicycle
Friendly Community, five bronze-level, and at
least 5 more working towards BFC status by 2012.
So we're getting there!
And if your community isn't working towards BFC status--why not?
Find out more about the national Bicycle Friendly Community program here:
<http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/bicyclefriendlyamerica/>http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/bicyclefriendlyamerica/
From the League of American Bicyclists' press release:
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St. Louis, Mo., for example, is one of the 70
largest cities surveyed in the ACS and a new BFC. The
community nearly doubled their number of bicycle
commuters from 2000 to 2008. The city has completed
several noteworthy projects within the past year,
including 53 new miles of on-street additions to the
bikeway system, a $10 million investment, and an
expansion of bicycling education offerings for children
and adults. St. Louis like cities across the
country, is making smart investments in building a welcoming
community for biking that will inevitably lead to
more, healthier and sustainable transportation options and
increased recreational opportunities. stated
Bill Nesper, League Director of the Bicycle Friendly America
program.
The BFC program is revolutionizing the way states
and communities evaluate their quality of life,
sustainability and transportation networks, while
allowing them to benchmark their progress and work
toward improving their bicycle-friendliness. The
application process to become a BFC is rigorous;
currently only 124 of the 318 total applicants
have a BFC four-year designation. The renewal process and
four levels of the award platinum, gold, silver
and bronze provide a clear incentive for communities to
continuously improve.
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The Missouri Bicycle & Pedestrian Federation is a
coalition of bicycling, walking, running, and
trails organizations and businesses representing
over 25,000 Missourians and speaking for the 2
million Missourians who bicycle regularly and the 5.8 million who walk.
Join MoBikeFed's advocacy alert network:
http://mobikefed.org/email.php#announce
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Dr. Brent Hugh, LCI #1335
Executive Director
Missouri Bicycle & Pedestrian Federation
Dire-@MoBikeFed.org
Phone: 816-695-6736
Fax: 210-579-2265
www.MoBikeFed.org
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